However: Capture One appears to read embedded metadata once, when the image file is first seen. If you want Capture One to exchange metadata with other applications, like Photo Mechanic or Lightroom, you need XML-files.
do sidecar files have any inherent advantage over using embedded metadata?Ĭapture One doesn't modify raw files, embedding is not an option. Then, in Capture One, I added folder 2017/2017-01/Capture/_Dalane to Session Favorites, visited that favorite folder and got on doing Capture One stuff. (yes, I always use Photo Mechanic for this). Next up was culling, ranking, keywording. My most recent image folder is 2017/2017-01/Capture/_Dalane, the last element was created by Photo Mechanic at time of ingest, higher level folders already existed from the first ingest. Creating the new session in Capture One, naturally, added Capture sibling folders (Selects, Output and Trash) in the session folder 2017/2017-01 as well as created the session database file sessiondb. Next I added the already existing (from Photo Mechanic) folder 2017/2017-01/Capture/_Repro to the Session Favorites, and I was good to go. Then I used Capture One File->New Session, typed 2017-01 in the Name field and adjusted the top folder name from 2016 to 2017 (all monthly sessions live inside a year folder). (That is indeed Photo Mechanic territory deluxe.) After ingesting image files to 2017/2017-01/Capture/_Repro, I culled, ranked, added color tag, title, description, keywords etc. The folder 2017/2017-01/Capture indeed looks like (part of) a session, but Photo Mechanic creates folders, not sessions. Folder 2017-01 wasn't a session folder from start. In fact, Photo Mechanic created a folder 2017, a sub folder 2017-01, a sub-sub folder Capture and a sub-sub-sub image folder _Repro when I did my very first ingest this year. It does not matter if image folders are created by Capture One or by Photo Mechanic. I use Photo Mechanic to ingest image files to image folders located in/below a session's Capture folder. My current session is 2017-01, the next will be 2017-02 etc. starting new session folders or keeping the same one indefinitely, moving files in with PhotoMechanic5 or Finder. To me: simpler/quicker access compared to navigating system folders in Capture One. the advantages of favouriting a session folder If "reference" means to use a so called dummy session, I have no answer as I do not use that approach. when to reference and when to import files into sessions No responses, I'll give it a shot despite my ultra-simple usage pattern